Livius:
[
standing over body of Timonides] What happened, gentle Greek? Did you try to tell them there were three possibilities? Did you not know there was a fourth? This!
[
picks up and throws spear away]
Lucilla:
This is the way they answer to reason and now even you must see, this is the only way to answer them.
Livius:
He does not seem dead to me, I can still feel his life, hear his words. Tell me what I must do in his name.
[
yelling]
Livius:
March the army into Rome and drown the city in blood!
Lucilla:
[
uncovering the Christian cross Timonides wore around his neck] He was my father's friend and a wise man.
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